Hassan Ngeze
Hassan Ngeze (born 25 December 1957) is a Rwandan journalist and convicted war criminal best known for spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda and Hutu superiority through his newspaper, Kangura, which he founded in 1990. Ngeze was a founding member and leadership figure in the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (CDR), a Rwandan Hutu Power political party that is known for helping to incite the genocide.
Hassan Ngeze | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 December 1957 Rubavu commune, Gisenyi prefecture, Rwanda |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, terrorist |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated in Mali |
| Criminal charge | conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide; complicity in genocide; and crimes against humanity (persecution, extermination and murder) racism (ICTR-97-27-1 on 10 November 1999) |
| Penalty | Life imprisonment, reduced to a 35-year prison term (28 November 1997 by the ICTR Appeals Chamber) |
Date apprehended | 18 July 1997 |
Ngeze is best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments" in the December edition of Kangura in 1990, which were essential in creating and spreading the Hutu supremacist ideology that led to the Rwandan genocide. During the genocide, Ngeze served as an organizer for the Impuzamugambi militia, and is alleged to have personally supervised and taken part in torture, mass rape, and killings of Tutsis.